The chief executive of German airline Lufthansa says it will take a "long time" to determine what exactly led to last week's deadly crash of a jetliner in the French Alps. Carsten Spohr on Wednesday visited the site of the March 24 Germanwings crash in Seyne-les-Alpes, where the families and friends of victims have gathered near the ravine where the Airbus A320 jet went down. He expressed deep sorrow over the crash and promised his company will help the families of the 150 victims "as long as is possible." Spohr was accompanied Wednesday by Thomas Winkelmann, the chief executive of Germanwings, which is a Lufthansa subsidiary. Reporters yelled harsh questions about why the co-pilot, believed to have deliberatly crashed the plane, was allowed to fly when there had been evidence of his ill health. But the two men did not respond to the queries. Investigators said Wednesday that they have finished the search for human remains at the site. They are still looking for one of the "black box" recorders that could help them determine what happened in the plane's final minutes before the crash. Co-pilot's mental health Lufthansa said Tuesday the co-pilot, 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz, told his flight school in 2009 that he had had a "serious depressive episode." The airline said a note was found in emails Lubitz sent to the airline's flight school when he resumed instruction after an interruption. Lufthansa said it later received a medical certificate "confirming his fitness to fly." French prosecutors said Monday that Lubitz had suicidal tendencies in the past, but appeared to be stable at the time of the crash in a remote part of southeastern France. French President Francois Hollande said all the victims on the flight from Barcelona, Spain to the German city of Dusseldorf will be identified by DNA samples by the end of this week. French officials say the plane's cockpit voice recorder indicates that Lubitz locked pilot Patrick Sondheimer out of the cockpit when he left to go to the lavatory before deliberately setting the plane to descend into the mountainside. Prosecutors say they have not yet found any motive for his action.
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